CALLISTE SCLATERI. 



SCLATER^S GOLDEN TANAGER. 



PLATE XIV. 



Fig./. -y 



Calliste aiirulenta .... Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 52. 



sclateri Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 207. 



Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 157; List of Bog. B.p.29. 



Mas et foemina. Supra Isetissime aureus, regione oculari citrino- 

 flava : loris et regione auriculari nigerrimis : dorse nigro 

 variegato : alis caudaque nigris : alarum tectricibus omnibus 

 et secundariis viridescente aureo limbatis : rectricum medi- 

 arum marginibus externis eodem colore vix tinctis : subtus 

 saturate brunnescenti-aureus : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, 

 tota 5*5, alse 3'1, caudse 2*1 poll. Angl. 



Although I give a separate figure and description of this Tanager, 

 which the Baron de Lafresnaye has done me the honour to call after 

 my name, I must confess I am not perfectly confident of the justice 

 of its claims to be considered specifically distinct from the preceding 

 bird. They are certainly very nearly allied to one another, and I 

 have thought it convenient to place their figures both in one plate, 

 in order that such differences as there are between them may be the 

 more easily apparent. 



It is quite true, as M. de Lafresnaye has conjectured in his article 

 in the " Revue et Magasin de Zoologie," in which he first indicated 

 this species, that the individual bird from which I took the short 

 characters for Calliste aurulenta, given in my Synopsis of this genus 

 published in 1851, was not a true aurulenta, but of this species, 

 which I at that time regarded merely as a more fully coloured and 

 probably adult bird. 



The most striking difference between these two close allies is the 

 dark chestnut or brown tinge of the whole lower surface in the 

 present bird, which in the former species is golden-yellow. Also 

 the Calliste sclateri is rather larger, and has the head of a brighter, 

 clearer tinge, with no shade of orange colour, and the ocular region 



